Clowns make everyone laugh, right Clown O Mania sounds like the perfect title for today’s crazy world. Instead, it’s an Atari ST game developed by Matthias Krenzel and Carsten Mohr and released in by Starbyte. However, it’s not a game I remember; my first impressions are of...

   Montezuma’s RevengeTreasure In Cave was released in by Bülent Özgür for Silly Venture. It’s a platformer developed in STOS for the Atari STe and appears to be a tribute to Montezuma’s Revenge. It feels somewhat of a teaser because there are only five rooms. Not only that...

   Another year closer to deathBeing the miserable sod that I am, I don’t usually welcome in the new year. It’s something I’ve never been bothered about. I’m more of a Christmas guy; January only means work is looming around the corner Thankfully, I’m retired, and I believe I’m probably a happier...

   Crawling with AsterixFollowing the success of RogueCrypt yes, that’s what I named it and I shall be forever sorry , Mug UK asked me to create a similar image for the Asterix themed Rogue hack. This version is essentially the same game with graphical modifications. Asterix in the Dungeons of Doom...

   Gaming in GEMSanta Run was developed in by Dan Ackerman and works on all Atari computers but appears to be aimed more at the Falcon. It’s a dodge collect ’em all with us as Santa running through the snow. The object is to collect Christmas presents before the timer expires collect the candy...

   ROGUE I’ve been considering doing this for quite a while. Why it’s taken me so long is anyone’s guess, but I can imagine most of you already use Peter’s excellent hard drive version Nonetheless, I have created my own bootable floppy image, which I have named RogueCrypt. Yes, I know the name is...

   Montezuma’s GoldMany excellent productions came from this year’s Silly Venture but it was a platformer that caught my eye. Tony Montezuma’s Gold is a conversion of the C original by Rafa Dudek, based on explorer Tony Halik. Coded by ST legend, George Nakos aka GGN , its gameplay is like a mash...

   Heavy on the MagickAlmost all ST users have played one of the Dizzy games. Code Masters had this type of puzzler nailed Not all their games featured an egg and, like our favourite viking, this game also follows the same premise of collecting useful items to solve puzzles. This time we are a...

   Beware the volatile As many of you know, I rarely play modern games. The closest would be Tales of Maj’Eyal, Serious Sam Fusion, and Diablo . However, Steam had a deal so I succumbed and bought Dying Light which has been on my wishlist for years. It’s ace and I love its open world aspect ...

   Baby Thor is back Hands up who saw this coming Yeah, I’m getting predictable, right Well, I was about three or four rooms into this game before I realised two things. One, I was having a blast with what I knew would be a great platformer. Two, I quickly restarted because I knew I needed to map...

   The son of Thor Axel is a young boy with a hammer. No, he’s not a raging lunatic but a young lad on a mission. His girlfriend, Lucy, has been kidnapped and is held in the dungeon of Mystic Castle. How did this tragedy happen I hear you cry. Well, a nasty green dragon called Nilmerg is the villain...

   A Happy Birthday Only the other day did I realize that AtariCrypt has been going for a decade. I never expected that So I want to thank everyone who has helped and supported me over the years. I call them Friends of AtariCrypt and they are see top right . Of course, my greetings to everyone...

   Groovy beatsIt’s been a while since I found a great music disk so I was pleasantly shocked to discover The Musical Wonder by Offbeat. This is their second ’Musical Wonder’ and is apparently described as a demo delight. Well, it is actually The floppy disk boots with a mesmerising intro before...

   BambiI was a kid the first time I heard Motorhead, thanks to watching The Young Ones. That sound blew me away as I’d never heard anything like it and I’ve been a fan since. It’s superb to see Lemmy RIP making his way onto the Atari ST thanks to Virgin Games in . Yet this isn’t an Atari ST...

   NoooooExtra Taking a break from gaming, let’s watch a fantastic Atari STe demo by NoExtra released late for STNICCC . This is a striking production with stunning pixels and DMA music by Tomchi, aka Nicolas Flandin. A particularly favourite musician of mine who later left NoExtra...

   Not a carCarrus was developed in by Thilo Jantz and is something I stumbled on while browsing through Atarimania. I love platformers but this one looked rather peculiar with its black amp; white screenshots. They show a car attempting to drive unrealistic roads so I was...

   Blue SoftWareWhenever I think of a typical menu disk, it had loads of games and was released by one of many different cracker groups. Several others did the same thing but kept it legit by packing demos, intros, freeware games, etc. Germany’s Blue Software is one such group and they called them DCD...

   Glad Imagine a fantastic sci fi future where we are a member of an exciting explorational team called X Plorer. Deep space is scary and, you guessed it, something went wrong But something always goes wrong, right Yep, we end up stranded on an alien planet light...

   What’s your favourite Pompey Pirates disk Lately, I’ve been plodding through a wedge of my Pompey Pirates disks. Such excellent cracks made me fondly remember the chat information banter within the scrollers. They gave me access to games I would never have been able to afford. Right or wrong, a...

   Indiana Jones While trolling through the immense archives on Atari Legend, I stumbled upon a platformer called Nowe Przygody Gilberta. I thought that name was gobbledegook until I translated the Polish text into English. Gilbert’s New Adventure was developed in GFA Basic by ...

   Tests Exams Ugh, NO It’s always great discovering something new that people are working on and I’ve been talking with Ole who runs the Exquizitely website. This is dedicated to playing online quizzes with one area devoted to the Atari ST. There are different quiz modes, and all scores are...

   Creepy, Kooky, Ooky, SpookyI am a massive fan of the original TV series plus the movies from the s are favourites in our house. I’ve no idea what’s taken me so long but eventually, I got around to Ocean’s platformer developed by James Higgins. The same programmer behind two superb...

   OldskoolI’m in a nostalgic mood, which is something of an odd thing to say considering the website you’re looking at right now Anyhow, this is one of the earlier cracktros. It might look lame but, it is legendary. Blade Runners used this intro several times and it takes me right back to my...

   Pleasing pixels Upgrading to the Atari ST was a monumental moment. I remember seeing games like Dungeon Master, Xenon, The Pawn, and International Karate. I couldn’t believe the detail and range of colours without colour clash Of course, that feeling happened again when I...

   Locked Doors, Keys amp; Demons You may remember I mapped a platformer by Daniel Walton called Deluxe Nostram That is the sequel to... wait for it... Nostram which he released a year earlier and many got it on an ST Action cover disk. Anyhow, this earlier version features...